UC Riverside Highlanders (5-5, 1-1 Big West) at BYU Cougars (8-1)
Provo, Utah; Saturday, 9 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: UC Riverside takes on No. 10 BYU after Andrew Henderson scored 28 points in UC Riverside’s 88-84 victory over the Cal Poly Mustangs.
The Cougars are 2-0 on their home court. BYU scores 83.2 points while outscoring opponents by 15.6 points per game.
The Highlanders are 3-4 in road games. UC Riverside has a 2-3 record in games decided by 10 points or more.
BYU makes 48.5% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.6 percentage points higher than UC Riverside has allowed to its opponents (44.9%). UC Riverside averages 7.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 fewer made shots on average than the 8.2 per game BYU allows.
TOP PERFORMERS: Richie Saunders is shooting 37.7% from beyond the arc with 2.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Cougars, while averaging 17.6 points, 5.4 rebounds and 2.1 steals. AJ Dybantsa is shooting 54.2% and averaging 20.3 points.
Henderson is averaging 17.9 points for the Highlanders. Marqui Worthy is averaging 15.9 points.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.